Environmental and energy economics.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings

The NBER's Program on Environmental and Energy Economics, directed by Don Fullerton of the University of Illinois, met in Palo Alto on January 23 and 24, 2014. NBER Research Associates Chris Costello of the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Catherine Wolfram of the University of California, Berkeley, organized the meeting. Part of the meeting was held jointly with the Industrial Organization Program. In addition to the papers marked with a (*) in the foregoing summary of the Industrial Organization meeting, these papers were discussed:

* Solomon Hsiang, University of California, Berkeley and NBER, and Amir Jina, Columbia University, "The Causal Effect of Environmental Catastrophe on Long-Run Economic Growth"

* Joseph Shapiro, Yale University and NBER, "Trade, C[O.sub.2], and the Environment"

* Severin Borenstein, University of California, Berkeley and NBER; James Bushnell, University of California, Davis and NBER; Frank Wolak, Stanford University and NBER; and Matthew Zaragoza-Watkins, University of California, Berkeley, "Expecting the Unexpected: Emissions Uncertainty and Environmental Market Design"

* Koichiro Ito, Boston University and NBER, and James Sallee, University of Chicago and NBER, "The Economics...